Species Pascoepus viridipennis Webb, 1983
Compiler and date details
4 October 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Pascoepus viridipennis Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [57].
Type data:
Holotype BPBM ♂ (coll.: i.1905, Koebele), Mittagong, New South Wales.
Introduction
This species is very close in male genitalia to P. nymphias (Kirkaldy) and P. viridiceps (Evans) but differs in certain features of the male genitalia. It has been found at numerous locations in the Brisbane area of SE Queensland and in the Sydney basin of New South Wales.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
NSW, Qld: Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
This species is closely related to P. nymphias (Kirkaldy) but can be distinguished by its mroe greenish colour without brown pronotal spots and by its slightly different male abdominal apodemes and male and female genitalia (Webb 1983).
ID Keys
Webb 1983: 51–52
Diagnosis References
Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [57]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 05-Dec-2019 | 30-Nov-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |